I built the 120GB version of this SSD in 5 systems of friends and family now, because imho the price/performance of this drive is best in class for light consumer based workloads.

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I agree with this, the specs of the drive speak for themselves, the read speeds are stupid fast but the write speeds are no faster then an average spindle based mass storage. Basically for an average person the read speeds are the most important, and that's were this SSD shines.

went right under my radar this review, cheers wizzard, i love them i have two non raided as i had issues trying to raid them but they are not much slower then the ocz revo x2 they replaced and perform well.

went right under my radar this review, cheers wizzard, i love them i have two non raided as i had issues trying to raid them but they are not much slower then the ocz revo x2 they replaced and perform well.

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Drove me nuts to get it to work......then I actually read the manual... INTEL raid on the first set of sata ports only (asrock x79 extreme 9) Marvel raid o gave me read and writes worse than a single ssd

but the write speeds are no faster then an average spindle based mass storage

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a mechanical hdd will give you about half the sequential write performance of the 840. when you add seeks into the write pattern, the difference will be huge, at least one order of magnitude, if not more.

There could be one hdd drive included in benchmarks for comparision (for example Seagate ST1000DM003). How can I know what is the difference to hdd? I think there are a lot of people without ssd that want to see if it makes sense to switch to ssd. For now I don't see the point in ssd drives. 2sec less for loading game level or application? It's better to overclock CPU to see similar gain in loading times (plus fps gain in games/applications working faster due to faster cpu).

There could be one hdd drive included in benchmarks for comparision (for example Seagate ST1000DM003). How can I know what is the difference to hdd? I think there are a lot of people without ssd that want to see if it makes sense to switch to ssd. For now I don't see the point in ssd drives. 2sec less for loading game level or application? It's better to overclock CPU to see similar gain in loading times (plus fps gain in games/applications working faster due to faster cpu).

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Im not meaning to be funny, but you could take the many testimonials on here , everyday use , ssds smash hdds for smile factor and ive done 4x raid 0 hdds which weren't bad I also had a revo x2 in this rig , , its 2x60 gb raid 0 on pciex and these drives compare well to it as a single drive in everyday use plugged via sata 3 obv..